You may say that this pertains more to graphic design than web development, but a large part of web development is presentation… Making everything pretty makes people stick around. But sometimes it can be tough to find the images or resources necessary to make your project really shine… Well, I’m here to help.
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I just stumbled upon this great little service that allows you to find images incredibly relevant to your search terms, which are completely free for you to use, by finding images that use a Creative Commons license, or are in the public domain. Looking for images for your latest project? Don’t want to worry about paying up or asking permission from the creator, but don’t mind giving them credit? Look no further.
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A big part of web development is marketing… Getting your work and your ideas out there. A lot of people have chosen to go viral, marketing on social networking services. Twitter, specifically, has grown to be quite a large network for marketers. I’m going to try and help make sure you don’t end up following thousands of random users and getting nothing in return.
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Keywords help immensely with your search engine optimization (or SEO, for short). They help the engines find your websites and relate them to certain topics, objects, words… Whatever it may be. In short, they help people find your site. Well, Wordstream launched two new, free services yesterday, to handle the keywords for you and help you focus on other parts of your site.
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Expediting your workflow is every web developer’s goal at some point or another.. Whether it’s on the backburner right now for you or not, I’m here to help you jump-start your process. Finding that one method or application is like the search for the Holy Grail… I’m going to try to dull the pain just a bit.
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Twitter is huge, and is only getting bigger. They’re expanding their API’s and making a bigger dent in the Internet than anybody could have predicted back in its infancy, in the year of 2006. But how big could it get, and should you embrace it?
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Setting up a new blog can often be difficult, but if your platform of choice is WordPress, I’ve got you covered! I’m going to outline some really helpful resources in this article to try and help get you started off in the right direction.
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The big (and incredibly) obvious question with Chrome OS is if it will be worth your time. YOUR big question at this moment may be why this is on a web development blog… Well, this is a web-centric OS, and uses applications based solely in the cloud.

Now, back to the original question… Yes. Chrome OS looks like it will be worth your time, especially if you have a netbook.
Allow me to elabourate…
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A lot of people have trouble deciding what backend to use for their blog, and all the time (alright, occasionally), I have people asking me what to use, and it always boils down to two things: WordPress, and Tumblr. But which one is better?
Ultimately, it’s up to you to decide, but I’m going to help push you in the right direction by providing my view on both systems.
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Sometimes, a designer is left stranded on a computer that lacks their normal tools of the trade, and when they get the itch to design something… Well, oftentimes, they’re out of luck.

But, there are some web tools that can be awesome temporary replacements for all your beloved applications. Sometimes you’ll have to give up some favourite features, but in the end… Well, be happy with what you get. Read the rest of this entry »